Politics

LOS ANGELES — That amazing deal where a sweater is being offered for $25 when it used to be priced at $100 may not be so amazing and customers should be aware, Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer said today.

WASHINGTON — Did anyone see it coming, the apparent new rapport between President Barack Obama and President-elect Donald Trump? Just a few months ago, they were regularly flinging insults back and forth.

WASHINGTON >> John Glenn, whose 1962 flight as the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth made him an all-American hero and propelled him to a long career in the U.S. Senate, died Thursday. The last survivor of the original Mercury 7 astronauts was 95.

After decades of talk, a ceremonial groundbreaking Thursday provided some hope for skeptics who wondered if the remake of San Pedro’s Ports O’ Call Village would ever happen. The afternoon event signaled the kick-off of construction for what will become the improved roadway leading into the new

WASHINGTON — Time magazine on Wednesday named Donald Trump its Person of the Year, bestowing what the president-elect called an “honor” even as he derided the idea that he’ll lead “the Divided States of America.

WASHINGTON — Last week’s telephone call between President-elect Donald Trump and Taiwan’s president was the result of six months of behind-the-scenes work by former Sen. Bob Dole acting on behalf of the Taiwanese government, according to federal filings and published reports.

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump has chosen retired Marine Gen. John Kelly, whose last command included oversight of the Guantanamo Bay detention center, to run the Department of Homeland Security, people close to the transition team said Wednesday.

Former L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca was “the heartbeat of conspiracy” when it came to hiding abuses within Men’s Central Jail, and he did nothing to hold deputies who beat inmates accountable, prosecutors said in federal court Wednesday.

Redondo Beach Councilman Stephen Sammarco, who has suffered medical problems for nearly a year, announced this week that he will not run for another term in the March election. Sammarco, who has been on the City Council since 2013, wears a back brace and has been in near constant pain since he fractured a vertebrae in a serious car accident in January.

With recreational cannabis legal in California, state leaders are taking another stab at letting law enforcement test the saliva of people suspected of driving under the influence of marijuana. Assemblyman Tom Lackey, R-Palmdale, this week introduced a bill that would allow officers to take a spit swab from drivers who’ve failed field sobriety tests.

The Chronicle of Social Change After five years at the helm of the largest child welfare system in America, Philip Browning will be retiring from Los Angeles County’s Department of Children and Family Services.

California stands to benefit from an expected boost in defense and infrastructure spending under a Donald Trump administration, but the president-elect’s policies regarding international trade remain murky, according to a new report.

This election voters lined up at 6:25 a.m. even though polls in California do not open until 7. Our all-female team consisted of four clerks and one inspector. We knew we would be overwhelmed — so our first break didn’t occur until after 9.

Hawthorne police will step up bicycle and pedestrian safety operations Thursday with extra officers on duty to patrol where accidents have occurred in the past three years. Officers will be looking for driving violations that can lead to accidents, including speeding, illegal turns, failure to stop for signs and signals, and failing to yield to pedestrians in crosswalks, police said.

The owner of the Granada Hills mansion where rapper Kid Cali was fatally shot in August has been issued a complaint for allegedly having an illegal house party, the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office said Tuesday.

Nearly 60 percent of California voters with children living at home agree with the statement, “my children will have a better future if they leave California.” More than 75 percent now think “earning enough income to enjoy a middle-class lifestyle is becoming almost impossible in my part of California.

The city of Los Angeles’ Public Safety Committee on Tuesday approved an agreement among three municipal departments to address the issue of hoarding conditions to better protect residents and neighbors who live adjacent to such properties.

The reconstituted Board of Supervisors voted 4-0 Tuesday to explore strategies to protect county residents from any potential changes in federal immigration policy. Supervisor Hilda Solis recommended the analysis, saying many of her constituents are worried about President-elect Donald Trump’s statements about illegal immigration.

After a nearly three-hour public hearing Tuesday, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors agreed unanimously to place a measure on the March ballot that asks voters to approve a quarter-cent sales tax to help fund supportive services for the homeless.

CANNON BALL, N.D. — Protesters who celebrated a major victory in their push to reroute the Dakota Access oil pipeline vowed to remain camped on federal land as they wait to find out whether President-elect Donald Trump might seek to overturn a decision that delayed the $3.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President-elect Donald Trump (all times EST): 4:40 p.m. Vice President Joe Biden says that some of the economic proposals under discussion as a new administration prepares to enter the White House are the same ones that led to “this God-awful recession of eight years ago.

WASHINGTON — The bizarre rumors began with a leaked email referencing Hillary Clinton and pizza parties. It morphed into fake online news stories about a child sex trafficking ring operating out of a popular Washington, D.

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump, moving to complete formation of his Cabinet and decide other key posts, chose former campaign rival Ben Carson on Monday to be secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Election season may be over, but in several South Bay cities another one is just getting started. Voters will weigh in on mayoral, City Council and school board races March 7 in Gardena, the Harbor Area, Westchester, Redondo Beach, Manhattan Beach, Palos Verdes Estates and Rolling Hills.

Two newly elected Los Angeles County supervisors brought historic changes to local politics Monday when they became part of a supermajority of women to serve on the largest local governmental body in the nation.

LOS ANGELES >> Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey was sworn in Monday for her second term and pledged to focus more attention on protecting children from neglect and abuse and addressing a growing epidemic of opioid abuse.

LOS ANGELES >> Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca, whose trial on federal corruption charges is scheduled to begin Monday, will now face two separate juries after a federal judge decided Friday to split the trial into two parts.

LOS ANGELES >> Janice Hahn and Kathryn Barger will be sworn in Monday as the newest members of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, giving the panel a female majority with a decidedly progressive bent.

IOWA CITY, Iowa >> Firearms enthusiasts who embraced Donald Trump’s campaign and his full-throated support of the Second Amendment are expecting a sweeping expansion of gun rights under his administration and a Congress firmly in Republican hands.

CANNON BALL, N.D. >> The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Sunday that it won’t grant an easement for the Dakota Access oil pipeline in southern North Dakota, handing a victory to the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and its supporters, who argued the project would threaten the tribe’s water source and cultural sites.

NEW YORK >> As President-elect Donald Trump stood onstage during the debut night of his “Thank you” tour and teased that he was about to announce a surprise Cabinet pick, some in the Ohio crowd bellowed: “No Romney! No Romney!” Trump’s administration selections have largely been cheered by close allies and supporters.

Although he has served as governor longer than anyone else in California history, Jerry Brown has never been forced to make one of the weightiest decisions governors face: whether to spare a convicted criminal from execution.

Many medical marijuana patients were worried that a ballot measure legalizing cannabis for recreational use in California would make the price of their medicine go up. Instead, for some of them, pot just got cheaper, though maybe not for long.

Social media, now the world’s go-to communication platform for sharing everything from family photos to major announcements from President-elect Donald Trump, is coming to Carson. City officials are expected to establish a policy governing conduct on various social-media platforms at Tuesday night’s City Council meeting, which begins at 6 p.

Nearly a month after Donald Trump’s presidential victory, Sandra Dimas is struggling with a heightened mix of anxiety and anger over how and when the president-elect will follow through on a central promise of his campaign: cracking down on illegal immigration.

WASHINGTON >> He phones. He kibitzes. He cajoles. He threatens. He rewards. It’s a freewheeling style that President-elect Donald Trump used to stop Carrier from shipping 800 jobs from an Indiana factory to Mexico.

The hunt for a job is never easy, especially if you just got out of the slammer for plunging an ice pick through the skull of your previous employer. Ahhhh, but there’s good news! If you have recently gotten out of the slammer for plunging an ice pick through the skull of your previous employer, have I got the city for you! Los Angeles, of course, the “business friendly” city.

The death of a San Pedro woman at the California Institution for Women has rallied prison activists who say the inmate committed suicide after failing to get mental health assistance. Bong Sook Chavez, who pleaded no contest to fatally stabbing her 10-year-old daughter in 2011, was found dead in her prison cell on Nov.

LOS ANGELES >> Controversy surrounding the cost of putting on the Olympic Games is as old as the Modern Games themselves. But the last 40 years in particular have seen a series of financial crises rock the International Olympic Committee and Olympic movement and led to mounting criticism of the IOC, scared off high-profile potential bid cities, created upheaval and financial uncertainty that has often embroiled and overshadowed the actual games and left several host cities still drowning in red ink decades after the Olympic flame was extinguished.

WASHINGTON >> When Donald Trump named his Treasury secretary, Teena Colebrook felt her heart sink. She had voted for the president-elect on the belief that he would knock the moneyed elites from their perch in Washington.

WASHINGTON — Breaking once more from presidential custom, Donald Trump is turning to a military man to steer the U.S. military, choosing retired Gen. James Mattis, who will be the first career officer to lead the Pentagon since just after World War II.